Dead Zone is another enviro buzzword that got some play a couple weeks ago. They need everything in their old pollution toolchest to replace Global Warming since that horse died.
Dead Zone is a good name for National PUBIC Radio.
My daughter is a geologist. Degree in HydroGeology. She said that the Sahara Desert used to be ocean bottom. I think the earth is a dynamic creation, always changing. Volcanoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, continental plate shift, etc.
“We have the same thing here,” he says. “These less productive areas are replacing the slightly more productive areas of the ocean.”
But “DEAD ZONE” has such a nicer ring to it than “slightly less productive area”